With Kreator 2.0 plug-in sample workstation, you can compose, perform, and record a huge selection of instruments right on your computer desktop with any Mac or PC recording software such as Garageband, Pro Tools, Cubase, or similar applications that support VSTi, Audio Units, or ReWire.

Included Instruments and Sounds:AW Studio Tron Plug-in:Contains all of the best sounds from the original MelloTron used on 100's of #1 hits throughout music history. The vast list of 24-bit/44.1kHz instruments and sounds includes: Brass 2, Brass 3, Cello Octavious, Cello Octavious Violin, Cello, Chorus 1 Ohhh, Chorus 2 Ohhh, Chorus 3 Ohhh, Clarinettes, Female Choir [15], Female Choir [1], Flute Octavious, Organ, Strawberry Flute, Trombone Trumpet Sax, Trumpet Trombone, Vint Choir, Vint Tron strings, Choir Aug [15], Male Choir [15], Choir [15], Violins Cello, Violins Octavious, Violins Cello Strings. Unlike the the original MelloTron's 8-second tape that would run out, each individual patch is perfectly looped but can also be made to run 8 seconds like the original. Play it standalone or in your preferred sequencer. The sample workstation software lets you tweak the Reverb, Compressor, Chorus, and Limiter to get the sounds you want.

AW Studio Synths Plug-inThis sample collection was inspired by historical synths like the Juno, Oberheim, Moog, Prophet, and Oscar synths—the models that made synthesizers irresistibly cool. It's like the Holy Grail of leads, bass, FX, and pads from the analog and digital synthesizers of the 60s & 70s that made the biggest impact on music as we knew and know it.

With the AudioWarrior Kreator plug-in, you can command searing synth leads, rumbling bass, FX, and pads with on-board DSP at 24-bit. It has Evolving Alien Environments and Soundscapes including Rain & Thunder, The Grays, BladeRunner, RAIN, Deep Sea, Alien Locust, Ethereal Bog, Frogs of Plague. This huge collectors' treasure chest of highly sought after synthesizers all work with Kreator's built-in DSP so you can play them standalone or in your preferred sequencer.

AW Studio Grand Plug-inThe piano samples include a Steinway Model D-inspired sparkling 88, and a mellow 88. All of the power and nuances of 88 individually sampled notes are captured, from deep, resonant lows to crisp-sparkling highs, with adjustable reverb, decay, attack, and EQ.

AW Silvertone Electric Guitar Plug-inThis guitar samples in the AudioWarrior Kreator plug-in were sampled from a genuine, highly coveted (pre-DanElectro) 1963 Sears Silvertone model 1457 Amp-In-Case Edition Guitar—famous for its sweet honey tone and bell-like character. It allows you to add the ultimate vintage guitar vibe to your songs, and, using any MIDI keyboard, you can stretch notes, play Wah-Wah leads, surf-guitar, spy-guitar, dive bombs, or use the Auto-Strum feature. It sounds great on its own as a direct guitar, or you can add distortion via amp modeling and cabinet modeling from AudioWarrior Kreator's built-in FX section. It also comes with its own guitar chord library.

The Silvertone Grand has dedicated iStrumMIDI strumming patterns for use with the included AudioWarrior (pat-pending) 85 G-Mapped chords, the first in a new series, for a total of 3400 auto-strumming chord combinations by layering 2 MIDI patterns into intricate strumming variations. Audiowarrior iStrumMIDI files are 4 bars each and can be tempo adjusted to fit your Master Tempo while maintaining the original pitch and feel. You can copy and paste them anywhere in your song and mix and match them in any order next to each other for seamless strumming chord changes. If you'd rather play the chords yourself, then literally strum the individually pre-programmed chords manually with a recommended 1mm nylon guitar pick on any non-weighted keyboard.

AW Studio Acoustic Dreadnought Plug-inThe acoustic dreadnought is a specially featured virtual rhythm guitar that can be manually strummed or will Auto-Strum in any key and tempo with a wide variety of songwriting chords that can be used to build complete rhythm guitar tracks via AudioWarrior's exclusive iStrum MIDI Patterns and AudioWarrior's (pat-pending) G-Mapped chords. An indispensable songwriting tool with 3400+ Automatic-Chord-Strummming possibilities, have it Auto-Strum or strum it the way you want to hear it for warm, vibrant, resonating, rich, robust, musically pleasing, and stunningly beautiful tones.

AW Studio Angel Druid Plug-inThe haunting Angel Druid Choir plug-in with on-board DSP features a unique angelic-female voice and druid-like male voice. You can even combine voices to blend & harmonize. Play the voice sample plug-in as a standalone or in your preferred sequencer where you can tweak the reverb, chorus, wah-wah, and vowel modeling for even more effects! It is 24-bit.

AW Studio B3 Plug-inThe influence of the Hammond organ can be felt everywhere. On any given radio station, there's a good chance you'll hear the B-3. The Hammond B-3 organ is used in all types of music, from Gospel to Blues, Jazz and Funk to Rock. Two famous rock bands that have made it a staple of their sound are Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes. In fact, Keith Emerson used to take his B-3 and throw it around the stage, ride it like a horse, set it on fire, stab it. This plug-in gives you that classic organ sound with the ability to manipulate the rotary, chorus, and wah-wah, for even more tone options.

AW Studio Bass Plug-inThe Studio Bass Plug-in features a J-bass, upright acoustic, electric slap, and 18 analog synth basses based on those found in the Juno, Oberheim, Moog, Prophet, and Oscar synths. Whichever you chose will fit nicely into any mix. For instance, you can use the pitch wheel on the upright acoustic to emulate sweet string slides.

AW Studio Drawbar Sound Plug-inSweet drawbar sounds that you can alter the character of by adjusting the parametric EQ Effect.

AW Studio Lead Guitar Plug-inThis allows you to dive bomb like you're working a guitar whammy bar with the pitch wheel or hold a note and listen to it transform into a screaming harmonic with natural vibrato.

AW Studio Rhodes Plug-inSince the actual acoustic sounded note of a Rhodes is too soft to be practical, each tine in this plug-in is vibrated in front of an electric-guitar-style magnetic pickup. The pickups' output is fed to an amplifier which you can adjust to produce the desired volume. The layers range from soft and tubular-bell-like to medium-and-piano-like, to hard/loud and distorted piano-tube-like. You can play it soft bell-like at low velocity, robust at medium velocity, hard for extra grit, and at just the right amount of grit for hard-hitting, but not overpowering electric piano notes.The original Rhodes was particularly popular from the late 60s through the early 80s, featured in a variety of hits like The Doors' "Riders On The Storm", "Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel, "Still Crazy After All These Years" by Paul Simon, "Babe" by Styx, "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" by Stevie Wonder, "Peg" by Steely Dan, "Gotta Serve Somebody" by Bob Dylan, the intro to "Sheep" by Pink Floyd, and "Angela" the theme for the television series "Taxi" by Bob James. Ray Charles played "Shake Your Tailfeather" on a Rhodes in the music store scene in the Blues Brothers.

Get CompetitiveThe unique sounds and innovative "Hit-Song" programming elements that KREATOR-XL provides give you a masterful palette of meticulously recorded, real-world instruments and production elements comprised of pristine 24-bit, world-class samples. KREATOR-XL'S sound library is divided into 27 sections with hundreds of program presets, REX files, and MIDI files. A variety of expressive 24-bit, 16 silmutaneous Instruments available from one intuitive GUI. Result oriented high quality, flexible sound-source with flexible stereo and 5.1 surround routing. Designed by musicians, for musicians.

FEATURES

Produced by professional musicians

Super easy operation

32-bit

Connects to VST, DXi2, AU, Rewire, and standalone

256 voices of polyphony

16 sounds on 16 MIDI channels simultaneously per instance

16 MIDI Channels always visible on the interface with the ability to quickly create Combi's and layer and mix any and all sounds on the fly

GM compatible

Sound Category System support, no difference between finding, selecting and loading a sound

For using HALion as a plug-in, a VST2 or DXi2 compatible host is required

Steinberg Key and USB component connector required

Display Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels

(Recommended)

Pentium/Athlon 1.4GHz or faster

512MB RAM

Display Resolution 1152 x 864 pixels, dual monitor setup

ASIO compatible sound card recommended

(Minimum)

Power Mac G4 867MHz

384MB RAM

Up to 4.7GB free HD space for Content

OS X Version 10.3

CoreAudio compatible audio hardware

For using HALion as a plug-in, a VST2 or AU compatible Host is required

Steinberg Key and USB component connector required

Display Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels

(Recommended)

Power Mac: G4 Dual 1.25GHz or faster

512MB RAM

Display Resolution 1152 x 864 pixels, dual monitor setup

Requires Steinberg USB Key

Kreator Instruments and Sounds may also be used by all HALion 3.1 [or higher] owners with the AudioWarrior Kreator License Code installed on a Steinberg Key (not included) via Syncrosoft's License Control Center (LCC)

Hidden in the middle of the computer requirements on the products second page is Steinberg key, so be sure to order one if you want to use your software the same day it arrives. Now for the actual product. First of all, it took three tries before it would work on my laptop, and I never got it to work on my desktop pc, which is the one in my little home studio is based around. While the sounds are good, they are not great, and certainly not professional quality. I guess that doesn't matter though, since I can't use it in my studio anyway . . .

'Bout time somebody came up with something that works like this. It was easy to install, it's expandable and I can use it without opening a big DAW. I can use it in Cubase or Pro Tools (I have both). It sounds great. The BrainWav drum parts from Bryan "Brain" Mantia are stellar as are all of the included instruments. I plan on using the Grand Piano and Cathedral Organ in particular at my church right from my laptop. All in all you get a lot for your hard earned cash and seems to work in everything right out of the box. Bravo. Two Thumbs UP.